Re: problem with genattr on i386-pc-linux-gnulibc

[jhpb at sarto dot gaithersburg dot md dot us (Joseph H. Buehler)]

"Matthew D. Langston" <langston@SLAC.Stanford.EDU> writes:

> I received the following error when building egcs-1.0
> on a PentiumII running vanilla RedHat 4.2 Linux.
> 
> *** Begin error message ***
> stage1/xgcc -Bstage1/  -DIN_GCC    -O2 -g -O2  -DHAVE_CONFIG_H   -o genattr \
>  genattr.o rtl.o ` case "obstack.o" in ?*) echo obstack.o ;; esac ` ` case "" in ?*) echo  ;; esac ` ` case "" in ?*) echo  ;; esac ` 
> ./genattr ./config/i386/i386.md > tmp-attr.h
> /bin/sh: ./genattr: No such file or directory
> make[2]: *** [stamp-attr] Error 126
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/work/projects/rpm/BUILD/egcs-1.0/gcc'
> make[1]: *** [bootstrap-lean] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/work/projects/rpm/BUILD/egcs-1.0/gcc'
> make: *** [bootstrap-lean] Error 2
> *** End error message ***

I am having similar problems with i686-pc-linux-gnulibc1 under redhat
4.2, though using 971201, not egcs-1.0 (yet).  You don't show a core
dump message, but in my case, the linker is coredumping with a SEGV.

> However, egcs-1.0 builds absolutely fine when I don't
> pass `configure' a target name (which, in my case,
> defaults to `i686-pc-linux-gnulibc1').

I'll have to try omitting --host, maybe it will fix my problems.

> Also, since I am building RedHat RPMs, I must build
> egcs-1.0 in the source directory.  This is contrary to
> the advice given at
> http://www.cygnus.com/egcs/install/configure.html, but
> since I am building RPMs I have no choice but to build
> in the source directory.

I build with a shell script, here is what it does, maybe you can do
the same thing in your .spec file:

    : unpack tar &&
    : cd top-level source directory &&
    mkdir .src &&
    mv * .src &&
    mv .src src &&
    mkdir build &&
    cd build &&
    : configure, make, etc.

Joe Buehler